This seems to have been fixed in VLC 3.0. It would not play some WMV files correctly, and I had to use Windows Media Player for these files. Side note: The new VLC 3.0 fixed long-standing WMV playback issues that I experienced when using VLC. Video output: support for HDR10 in Direct3D 11 with Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.

Demuxer: MP4 demuxer rework with support for additional formats.

Decoders: support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC codecs.

Decoders: support for experimental AV1 video, ARIB STD-B24 subtitles, experimental Daala video.

Hardware Decoder: new hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and iOS.

Hardware Decoder: support for VP9 and WMV3 decoding.

Hardware Decoder: supports HECV hardware decoding, MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android.

Hardware Decoder: supports HEVC decoding and Direct3D 11 decoding on Windows.

Access: Blu-Ray open ISO over network, support for BD-J, and DVD ISO over network.

Access: new WASAPI audio capture module.

Access: support for decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar).

Access: adaptive streaming improements, e.g.

Core: support for ambisonic audio and more than eight audio channels.

Core: start videos paused on first frame.

Core: portable version of Windows build supported.

Core: support for 12bits corec and extended colorspaces (HDR).

Core: support for Chromecast and other output renderers, and Chromecast output module.

Core: support for HDMI passtrhgouh for HD audo codecs such as E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD.Core: auto-detection of external audio tracks.Core: support for keystores to fetch and store passwords securely.Core: network browsing for SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS and other file systems supported.Here is a short list of important changes in the new media player release: VLC 3.0.0 includes lots of changes compared to the last stable version 2.2.8. Linux: requires Kernel newer than 2.6.26.Windows Vista: requires platform upgrade.Windows XP: release should work for the most part, but it has limitations.The 3.0 branch of VLC has new requirements: The organization notes that VLC 3.0.x will be the last working releases for Windows XP and Vista, and the matching Windows server variants, for Mac OS 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9, for iOS 7 and 8, and for Android 2.x, 3.x, 4.0.x and 4.1.x. VideoLAN marked it as a LTS, Long Term Service release for several systems. VLC 3.0's interface looks more or less identical to previous versions. You can update an existing copy of VLC Media Player on desktop machines, or install the new version without transferring any existing customizations to the new version. The player supports Chromecast, new audio and video formats including HDR, HTTP 2.0, reworked core components with improvements, ISO over network play and a lot more. VLC 3.0.0 features under-the-hood changes mostly. The company released a total of nine release candidate builds before that and used these builds to fix various issues before the final release. The new version of the multimedia player is already on the official FTP server.

Vlc media player 3.0.4 64 bit review